Lore

Yulin IV

Planets

Yulin IV is the fourth planet from the sun of the Yulin system, Banu Protectorate. Tectonic activity on this world has raised towering pillars of rock with natural windows caused by constantly-shifting wind patterns. The Banu in the system utilize these natural formations as…

Argo Astronautics

Commerce · Human

Argo Astronautics is an industrial design and manufacturing concern located in the United Empire of Earth (UEE). Best known for their Multi-Purpose Utility Vehicle (MPUV) line of spacecraft, the company got its start designing terrestrial mag-lev train cars and has, over several…

Kins III

Planets

Kins III is the third planet from the sun of the Kins system, Banu Protectorate. A massive super-Earth, it has oceans of mixed water and ammonia and an atmosphere composed of nitrogen, oxygen, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. While Banu can breathe the air comfortably, Humans,…

Anvil Aerospace

Commerce · Military · Human

Anvil Aerospace is a spacecraft manufacturing corporation headquartered on Terra (Terra III). Founded in SEY 2772 by spacecraft designer J. Harris Arnnold, it produces both military and civilian crafts. Anvil's earliest ship, the Osprey, was directly inspired by the work of the…

Consolidated Outland

Commerce · Human

Consolidated Outland is a Human spacecraft development and manufacturing company based on Rytif (Bremen II). The company was founded by trillionaire Silas Koerner in an express effort to disrupt modern spacecraft manufacturing and design conventions. Its first spacecraft, the…

Drake Interplanetary

Commerce · Human

Drake Interplanetary is a spacecraft manufacturer headquartered on Borea (Magnus II). The fifth largest spacecraft producer in United Empire of Earth (UEE), Drake was founded in SEY 2845 by Jan Dredge to produce the Cutlass medium fighter for militia use. Drake has cultivated…

Elio-Harman Aerospace

Commerce · Human

Elio-Harman Aerospace is a defunct Human spacecraft manufacturer founded in 2456. Elio-Harman's most famous design was the Stiletto interceptor, one of the first frontline military spacecraft operated by the military. The company went bankrupt in 2568 and its assets were divided…

Kins V

Planets

Kins V is the fifth planet from the sun of the Kins system, Banu Protectorate. Pale yellow with some very light red and green banding, its color is due to the presence of ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere. Although the planet is hundreds of times more massive than Earth…

Yulin V

Planets

Yulin V is the fifth planet from the sun of the Yulin system, Banu Protectorate. An ice giant, its hydrogen and helium atmosphere contains water, ammonia, and methane ice that combine to give the planet a uniform pale blue color. Its strong equatorial winds feed storm systems…

Kins I

Planets

Kins I is the first planet from the sun of the Kins system, Banu Protectorate. A mesoplanet with an iron-rich crust, it has been extensively mined and bears the scars of ancient strip-mining operations. Visitors to the planet have been known to utilize its myriad abandoned…

Yulin I

Planets

Yulin I is the first planet from the sun of the Yulin system, Banu Protectorate. Orbiting very close to its sun, its lithosphere has been mostly worn away after eons of exposure to stellar wind and radiation. The surface of the planet is heavily cratered, resulting from…

Bacchus I

Planets

Bacchus I is the first planet from the suns of the Bacchus system, Banu Protectorate. A massive and dense super-Earth, it has both high gravity and a wide circumference. It is close enough to its suns that parts of its crust liquify into lava during the day and solidify during…

Yulin VI

Planets

Yulin VI is the sixth planet from the sun of the Yulin system, Banu Protectorate. A gas giant, its atmosphere is almost entirely composed of hydrogen, making it a popular hub for automated refineries and refueling stations. This has additionally attracted outlaws who have been…

Gliese III

Planets

Gliese III is the third planet from the sun of the Gliese system, Banu Protectorate. A terrestrial world with an unbreathable atmosphere, it is dotted with various Soulis engaged in a wide variety of trades, from farming to mining to manufacturing. Each Souli is located within a…

Gliese V

Planets

Gliese V is the fifth planet from the sun of the Gliese system, Banu Protectorate. Clouds of water vapor float in the upper reaches of its hydrogen-methane atmosphere, creating bands of white, light grey, and dark grey. Human-owned corporation Terragra uses Gliese V as the…

Gliese VI

Planets

Gliese VI is the sixth and final planet from the sun of the Gliese system, Banu Protectorate. A protoplanet, it is oblate in shape and has no atmosphere. An unknown Souli built a statue of Cassa, the Patron of Luck here in roughly SEY 2200 CE, according to carbon dating. New…

Gliese I

Planets

Gliese I is the first planet from the sun of the Gliese system Banu Protectorate. An iron planet with a superheated ferromagnetic core that is partially exposed to vacuum, its intensely hot conditions make landing on its surface nearly impossible without specialized technology.…

Gatac Manufacture (Ao't.o'a'Ng.at'ak)

Xi'an · Commerce

Gatac Manufacture (Ao't.o'a'Ng.at'ak) is a commercial and industrial spacecraft manufacturer located on Tethle'a (Hyoton II). The company has a reputation in the Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an) for producing cutting-edge and reliable cargo ships. After the SEY 2947 Human-Xi'an Trade…

Musashi Industrial and Starflight Concern (MISC)

Commerce · Human

Musashi Industrial and Starflight Concern (MISC) is a spacecraft manufacturer headquartered in Fujin City on Saisei (Centauri III). Founded in SEY 2805 after a merger between Hato Electronics Corporation and the Musashi Lifestyle Design Unit spinoff of Acorn Limited, MISC…

Automated Hydrogen Fuel Harvesting Platforms

Science and Technology

Automated hydrogen fuel harvesting platforms are space stations set in stable orbit around hydrogen-rich gas giants that harvest and process hydrogen into spacecraft fuel. While they are fully automated, they are not self-repairing. Well-maintained platforms are visited by…

Able Baker Challenge

Illegal Activity · Sports · Human

The Able Baker Challenge is an unofficial spacecraft racing event held in the Baker system. It makes use of system-specific obstacles to hamper the pilots' efforts in reaching the finish line. Though the use of weapons is allowed during most legs of the race, shooting to kill is…

Murray Cup

Sports · Human

The Murray Cup is a spacecraft race held annually at the end of racing season in the Ellis system. Dating back to 2467, when terraforming workers of Gaia Planet Services unofficially raced one another to pass the time, the Murray Cup is now the most prestigious event in modern…

Origin Jumpworks

Commerce

Origin Jumpworks is a personal luxury spacecraft manufacturer based on Terra (Terra III), United Empire of Earth (UEE). The move to Terra is recent; until SEY 2913, the company was located on Earth (Sol III), and had a policy only to use materials created in the Sol System to…

Aopoa

Xi'an · Commerce

Aopoa is a Xi'an House and spacecraft manufacturer. They hold a monopoly granted by the Xi'an government to exclusively manufacture light craft, such as the Khartu-al (Kal'tuāl) and the San'tok.yāi. One of a growing number of Xi'an corporations that market their products to…